diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,54 +2,58 @@
 
 **Topics**
 
-- <a href="#v12-6-0">v12\.6\.0</a>
+- <a href="#v12-6-1">v12\.6\.1</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes">Minor Changes</a>
     - <a href="#bugfixes">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
-- <a href="#v12-5-0">v12\.5\.0</a>
+- <a href="#v12-6-0">v12\.6\.0</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary-1">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes-1">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
     - <a href="#bugfixes-1">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
-- <a href="#v12-4-0">v12\.4\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v12-5-0">v12\.5\.0</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary-2">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes-2">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features">Deprecated Features</a>
     - <a href="#bugfixes-2">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-1">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v12-4-0">v12\.4\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
     - <a href="#new-plugins">New Plugins</a>
         - <a href="#callback">Callback</a>
     - <a href="#new-modules-2">New Modules</a>
 - <a href="#v12-3-0">v12\.3\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-3">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-3">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-3">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-4">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-4">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-4">Bugfixes</a>
     - <a href="#new-plugins-1">New Plugins</a>
         - <a href="#filter">Filter</a>
 - <a href="#v12-2-0">v12\.2\.0</a>
-    - <a href="#release-summary-4">Release Summary</a>
-    - <a href="#minor-changes-4">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-4">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules-3">New Modules</a>
-- <a href="#v12-1-0">v12\.1\.0</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary-5">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes-5">Minor Changes</a>
-    - <a href="#deprecated-features-2">Deprecated Features</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-1">Deprecated Features</a>
     - <a href="#bugfixes-5">Bugfixes</a>
-    - <a href="#new-modules-4">New Modules</a>
-- <a href="#v12-0-1">v12\.0\.1</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-3">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v12-1-0">v12\.1\.0</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary-6">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes-6">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#deprecated-features-2">Deprecated Features</a>
     - <a href="#bugfixes-6">Bugfixes</a>
-- <a href="#v12-0-0">v12\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#new-modules-4">New Modules</a>
+- <a href="#v12-0-1">v12\.0\.1</a>
     - <a href="#release-summary-7">Release Summary</a>
     - <a href="#minor-changes-7">Minor Changes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-7">Bugfixes</a>
+- <a href="#v12-0-0">v12\.0\.0</a>
+    - <a href="#release-summary-8">Release Summary</a>
+    - <a href="#minor-changes-8">Minor Changes</a>
     - <a href="#breaking-changes--porting-guide">Breaking Changes / Porting Guide</a>
     - <a href="#deprecated-features-3">Deprecated Features</a>
     - <a href="#removed-features-previously-deprecated">Removed Features \(previously deprecated\)</a>
     - <a href="#security-fixes">Security Fixes</a>
-    - <a href="#bugfixes-7">Bugfixes</a>
+    - <a href="#bugfixes-8">Bugfixes</a>
     - <a href="#new-plugins-2">New Plugins</a>
         - <a href="#callback-1">Callback</a>
         - <a href="#filter-1">Filter</a>
@@ -58,17 +62,57 @@
     - <a href="#new-modules-5">New Modules</a>
 This changelog describes changes after version 11\.0\.0\.
 
-<a id="v12-6-0"></a>
-## v12\.6\.0
+<a id="v12-6-1"></a>
+## v12\.6\.1
 
 <a id="release-summary"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
-Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+Regular bugfix release\.
 
 <a id="minor-changes"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
+* mattermost\, rocketchat\, slack \- update default <code>icon\_url</code> to ansible favicon \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11909)\)\.
+
+<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+### Bugfixes
+
+* apt\_rpm \- do not fail when <code>update\_kernel</code> finds no new kernel available \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10055](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10055)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11949](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11949)\)\.
+* apt\_rpm \- fix upgrade of local RPM not present in repository \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9161](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9161)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12039](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12039)\)\.
+* bundler \- replace deprecated <code>\-\-deployment</code>\, <code>\-\-without</code>\, <code>\-\-path</code>\, <code>\-\-clean</code>\, and <code>\-\-binstubs</code> flags with <code>BUNDLE\_\*</code> environment variables\, fixing compatibility with Bundler 4 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4583](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4583)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11380](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11380)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12024](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12024)\)\.
+* cargo \- fix <code>state\=latest</code> always reporting <code>changed</code> due to greedy regex capturing description text instead of version string \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8949](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8949)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12064](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12064)\)\.
+* cobbler\_system \- fix <code>KeyError</code> when adding a new interface to an existing system that does not yet have it defined \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7007](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7007)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11995](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11995)\)\.
+* crypttab \- fix parsing of options whose value contains an equal sign \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4963](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/4963)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11926](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11926)\)\.
+* datadog\_downtime \- fix <code>TypeError</code> when returning API response with <code>datadog\-api\-client</code> \>\= 2\.28\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9079](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9079)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12019](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12019)\)\.
+* flatpak \- fix reporting <code>changed</code> on already present flatpaks with a dash in the last part of the ID \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/12062](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/12062)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12063](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12063)\)\.
+* gitlab\_hook \- now properly passes the <code>releases\_events</code> parameter to the GitLab API on hook creation\, fixing a 500 Internal Server Error when the parameter was not specified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11269](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11269)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11917](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11917)\)\.
+* ipa\_group \- fix idempotency when <code>external\: false</code> on an existing non\-external group \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5061](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5061)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11933](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11933)\)\.
+* ldap\_attrs \- fix <code>state\=exact</code> incorrectly issuing <code>MOD\_ADD</code> instead of <code>MOD\_REPLACE</code> for attributes returned by the server with different casing \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1624](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/1624)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11990](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11990)\)\.
+* logstash\_plugin \- use <code>http\_proxy</code>/<code>https\_proxy</code> environment variables for proxy support instead of broken JVM flags\; expose <code>stderr</code> on failure \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8650](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8650)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11951](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11951)\)\.
+* lvol \- fix thin\-pool creation when <code>size</code> is a percentage \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11923](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11923)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11925](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11925)\)\.
+* odbc \- fetch rows before committing to fix <code>HY010</code> function sequence error \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5395](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5395)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11972](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11972)\)\.
+* pam\_limits \- only create backup file when the target file is actually modified \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/12011](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/12011)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12014](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12014)\)\.
+* puppet \- fix <code>TypeError</code> when writing facts data \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7932](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7932)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11954](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11954)\)\.
+* scaleway\_image\_info\, scaleway\_ip\_info\, scaleway\_organization\_info\, scaleway\_security\_group\_info\, scaleway\_server\_info\, scaleway\_snapshot\_info\, scaleway\_volume\_info \- fix <code>NoneType</code> error when the Scaleway API returns an empty or non\-JSON response body \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11361](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11361)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11918](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11918)\)\.
+* selective callback plugin \- align host names in stats output by padding to the longest name \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8797](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/8797)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12065](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12065)\)\.
+* seport \- fix idempotency when a requested port is already covered by an existing range registered for the same setype \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10105](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10105)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11994](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11994)\)\.
+* xml \- emit an error when <code>value</code> is not a string\, pointing to the offending xpath \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7171](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7171)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11959](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11959)\)\.
+* xml \- fix <code>print\_match</code> not populating the <code>matches</code> return value \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9125](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/9125)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12013](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/12013)\)\.
+* yarn \- skip Node\.js runtime warning lines \(starting with <code>\(node\:</code>\) in stderr before JSON parsing\, fixing failures with Node\.js 24 which emits <code>DeprecationWarning</code> to stderr\. The warnings are passed on to the user \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11943](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11943)\)\.
+* zypper\_repository \- allow unreachable <code>\.repo</code> URLs and missing local paths when using <code>state\=absent</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5769](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/5769)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11947](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11947)\)\.
+
+<a id="v12-6-0"></a>
+## v12\.6\.0
+
+<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
+### Release Summary
+
+Regular bugfix and feature release\.
+
+<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
+### Minor Changes
+
 * cobbler\_sync \- minor code cleanup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879)\)\.
 * cobbler\_system \- minor code cleanup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879)\)\.
 * composer \- add <code>force</code> parameter\; when <code>command\=create\-project</code>\, the module now checks whether a <code>composer\.json</code> already exists in <code>working\_dir</code> and skips the command if so\, making the task idempotent\. Set <code>force\=true</code> to always run the command regardless \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/725](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/725)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11689](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11689)\)\.
@@ -102,7 +146,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 * terraform \- minor code cleanup \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11879)\)\.
 * xenserver\_guest \- use <code>enumerate\(\)</code> instead of manual index variable in <code>for</code> loop \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11721](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11721)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * alternatives \- normalize locale environment for <code>run\_command\(\)</code> calls to <code>LANGUAGE\=C</code>\, <code>LC\_ALL\=C</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11737](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11737)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11738](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11738)\)\.
@@ -246,12 +290,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 <a id="v12-5-0"></a>
 ## v12\.5\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-1"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Bugfix and feature release\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-1"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-2"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * ansible\_galaxy\_install \- add parameter <code>executable</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7261](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/7261)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11646](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11646)\)\.
@@ -296,7 +340,7 @@ Bugfix and feature release\.
 * monit \- support for Monit version 5\.18 or older is deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 14\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11254](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11254)\)\.
 * puppet \- the <code>timeout</code> parameter is deprecated and will be removed in community\.general 14\.0\.0\. \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11658](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11658)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-1"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-2"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * counter\_enabled callback plugin \- fix plugin not observing <code>display\_ok\_hosts</code> option \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3978](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/3978)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11656](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11656)\)\.
@@ -318,12 +362,12 @@ Bugfix and feature release\.
 <a id="v12-4-0"></a>
 ## v12\.4\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-2"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-2"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * ModuleHelper module utils \- allow to ignore specific exceptions in <code>module\_fails\_on\_exception</code> decorator \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11488](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11488)\)\.
@@ -335,7 +379,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 * redfish\_info \- add Redfish Root data to results of successful <code>CheckAvailability</code> command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11504](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11504)\)\.
 * seport \- adds support for DCCP and SCTP protocols \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11486](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11486)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-2"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * keycloak module utils \- fix <code>TypeError</code> crash when managing users whose username or email contains special characters such as <code>\+</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10305](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/10305)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11472](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11472)\)\.
@@ -367,12 +411,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 <a id="v12-3-0"></a>
 ## v12\.3\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-3"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-4"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Regular feature and bugfix release\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-3"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-4"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * alicloud\_ecs module utils \- update to Python 3\.7 idioms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11341](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11341)\)\.
@@ -472,7 +516,7 @@ Regular feature and bugfix release\.
 * zypper \- update to Python 3\.7 idioms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11344](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11344)\)\.
 * zypper\_repository \- update to Python 3\.7 idioms \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11344](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11344)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-3"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-4"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * cloudflare\_dns \- also allow <code>flag\=128</code> for CAA records \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11355](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11355)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11377](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11377)\)\.
@@ -493,12 +537,12 @@ Regular feature and bugfix release\.
 <a id="v12-2-0"></a>
 ## v12\.2\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-4"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-5"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Feature and bugfix release\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-4"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-5"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * btrfs module utils \- make execution of external commands safer by passing arguments as list \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11240](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11240)\)\.
@@ -518,7 +562,7 @@ Feature and bugfix release\.
 
 * All module utils\, plugin utils\, and doc fragments will be made <strong>private</strong> in community\.general 13\.0\.0\. This means that they will no longer be part of the public API of the collection\, and can have breaking changes even in bugfix releases\. If you depend on importing code from the module or plugin utils\, or use one of the doc fragments\, please [comment in the issue to discuss this](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11312)\. Note that this does not affect any use of community\.general in task files\, roles\, or playbooks \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11312](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11312)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11320](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11320)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-4"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-5"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * apk \- fix <code>packages</code> return value for apk\-tools \>\= 3 \(Alpine 3\.23\) \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11264](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11264)\)\.
@@ -538,12 +582,12 @@ Feature and bugfix release\.
 <a id="v12-1-0"></a>
 ## v12\.1\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-5"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-6"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-5"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-6"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * The last code included in the collection that was licensed under the PSF 2\.0 license was removed form the collection\. This means that now all code is either GPLv3\+ licensed\, MIT licensed\, or BSD\-2\-clause licensed \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11232](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11232)\)\.
@@ -894,7 +938,7 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 * saslprep module utils \- this module utils is not used by community\.general and will thus be removed from community\.general 13\.0\.0\. If you are using it from another collection\, please copy it over \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11205](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11205)\)\.
 * spotinst\_aws\_elastigroup \- module relies on Python package supporting Python 2\.7 only\; the module will be removed from community\.general 13\.0\.0 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11069](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11069)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-5"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-6"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * \_filelock module utils \- add type hints\. Fix bug if <code>set\_lock\(\)</code> is called with <code>lock\_timeout\=None</code> \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11222](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11222)\)\.
@@ -922,12 +966,12 @@ Regular bugfix and feature release\.
 <a id="v12-0-1"></a>
 ## v12\.0\.1
 
-<a id="release-summary-6"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-7"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 13\.0\.0rc1\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-6"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-7"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * datetime module utils \- remove code for unsupported Python version \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11048](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11048)\)\.
@@ -942,7 +986,7 @@ Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 13\.0\.0rc1\.
 * tss lookup plugin \- fixed <code>AccessTokenAuthorizer</code> initialization to include <code>base\_url</code> parameter for proper token authentication \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11031](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11031)\)\.
 * zfs\_facts \- use Ansible construct to check result of external command \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11054](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11054)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-6"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-7"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * \_filelock module utils \- improve Python code \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11043](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11043)\)\.
@@ -1075,12 +1119,12 @@ Bugfix release for inclusion in Ansible 13\.0\.0rc1\.
 <a id="v12-0-0"></a>
 ## v12\.0\.0
 
-<a id="release-summary-7"></a>
+<a id="release-summary-8"></a>
 ### Release Summary
 
 This is release 12\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2025\-11\-03\.
 
-<a id="minor-changes-7"></a>
+<a id="minor-changes-8"></a>
 ### Minor Changes
 
 * Modernize code for Python 3\.7\+\. This includes code reformatting\, and adding new checks to CI\, including a type checker \(mypy\)\. Most of the code does not have type hints yet\, but now it is possible to add typing hints and have these validated \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10285](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10285)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10886](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10886)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10891](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10891)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10892](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10892)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10897](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10897)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10899](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10899)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10902](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10902)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10903](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10903)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10904](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10904)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10907](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10907)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10908](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10908)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10909](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10909)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10939](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10939)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10940](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10940)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10941](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10941)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10942](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10942)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10945](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10945)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10947](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10947)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10958](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10958)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10959](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10959)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10968](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10968)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10969](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10969)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10970](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10970)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10971](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10971)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10973](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10973)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10974](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10974)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10975](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10975)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10976](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10976)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10977](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10977)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10978](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10978)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10979](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10979)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10980](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10980)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10981](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10981)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10992](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10992)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10993](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10993)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10997](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10997)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10999](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10999)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11015](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11015)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11016](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11016)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11017](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11017)\)\.
@@ -1417,7 +1461,7 @@ This is release 12\.0\.0 of <code>community\.general</code>\, released on 2025\-
 
 * keycloak\_user \- the parameter <code>credentials\[\]\.value</code> is now marked as <code>no\_log\=true</code>\. Before it was logged by Ansible\, unless the task was marked as <code>no\_log\: true</code>\. Since this parameter can be used for passwords\, this resulted in credential leaking \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11000](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/issues/11000)\, [https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11005](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/11005)\)\.
 
-<a id="bugfixes-7"></a>
+<a id="bugfixes-8"></a>
 ### Bugfixes
 
 * Avoid deprecated functionality in ansible\-core 2\.20 \([https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10687](https\://github\.com/ansible\-collections/community\.general/pull/10687)\)\.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2a7abcad38..d5c6b2332b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,46 @@ Community General Release Notes
 
 This changelog describes changes after version 11.0.0.
 
+v12.6.1
+=======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Regular bugfix release.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- mattermost, rocketchat, slack - update default ``icon_url`` to ansible favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11909).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- apt_rpm - do not fail when ``update_kernel`` finds no new kernel available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10055, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11949).
+- apt_rpm - fix upgrade of local RPM not present in repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9161, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12039).
+- bundler - replace deprecated ``--deployment``, ``--without``, ``--path``, ``--clean``, and ``--binstubs`` flags with ``BUNDLE_*`` environment variables, fixing compatibility with Bundler 4 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4583, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11380, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12024).
+- cargo - fix ``state=latest`` always reporting ``changed`` due to greedy regex capturing description text instead of version string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8949, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12064).
+- cobbler_system - fix ``KeyError`` when adding a new interface to an existing system that does not yet have it defined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7007, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11995).
+- crypttab - fix parsing of options whose value contains an equal sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4963, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11926).
+- datadog_downtime - fix ``TypeError`` when returning API response with ``datadog-api-client`` >= 2.28.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9079, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12019).
+- flatpak - fix reporting ``changed`` on already present flatpaks with a dash in the last part of the ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12062, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12063).
+- gitlab_hook - now properly passes the ``releases_events`` parameter to the GitLab API on hook creation, fixing a 500 Internal Server Error when the parameter was not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11269, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11917).
+- ipa_group - fix idempotency when ``external: false`` on an existing non-external group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5061, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11933).
+- ldap_attrs - fix ``state=exact`` incorrectly issuing ``MOD_ADD`` instead of ``MOD_REPLACE`` for attributes returned by the server with different casing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1624, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11990).
+- logstash_plugin - use ``http_proxy``/``https_proxy`` environment variables for proxy support instead of broken JVM flags; expose ``stderr`` on failure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8650, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11951).
+- lvol - fix thin-pool creation when ``size`` is a percentage (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11923, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11925).
+- odbc - fetch rows before committing to fix ``HY010`` function sequence error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5395, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11972).
+- pam_limits - only create backup file when the target file is actually modified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12011, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12014).
+- puppet - fix ``TypeError`` when writing facts data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11954).
+- scaleway_image_info, scaleway_ip_info, scaleway_organization_info, scaleway_security_group_info, scaleway_server_info, scaleway_snapshot_info, scaleway_volume_info - fix ``NoneType`` error when the Scaleway API returns an empty or non-JSON response body (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11361, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11918).
+- selective callback plugin - align host names in stats output by padding to the longest name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8797, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12065).
+- seport - fix idempotency when a requested port is already covered by an existing range registered for the same setype (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10105, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11994).
+- xml - emit an error when ``value`` is not a string, pointing to the offending xpath (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7171, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11959).
+- xml - fix ``print_match`` not populating the ``matches`` return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9125, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12013).
+- yarn - skip Node.js runtime warning lines (starting with ``(node:``) in stderr before JSON parsing, fixing failures with Node.js 24 which emits ``DeprecationWarning`` to stderr. The warnings are passed on to the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11943).
+- zypper_repository - allow unreachable ``.repo`` URLs and missing local paths when using ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5769, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11947).
+
 v12.6.0
 =======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index 8e61df04cb..903514766b 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -2565,3 +2565,106 @@ releases:
         name: snap_connect
         namespace: ''
     release_date: '2026-04-20'
+  12.6.1:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+        - apt_rpm - do not fail when ``update_kernel`` finds no new kernel available
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10055,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11949).
+        - apt_rpm - fix upgrade of local RPM not present in repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9161,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12039).
+        - bundler - replace deprecated ``--deployment``, ``--without``, ``--path``,
+          ``--clean``, and ``--binstubs`` flags with ``BUNDLE_*`` environment variables,
+          fixing compatibility with Bundler 4 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4583,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11380, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12024).
+        - cargo - fix ``state=latest`` always reporting ``changed`` due to greedy
+          regex capturing description text instead of version string (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8949,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12064).
+        - cobbler_system - fix ``KeyError`` when adding a new interface to an existing
+          system that does not yet have it defined (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7007,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11995).
+        - crypttab - fix parsing of options whose value contains an equal sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4963,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11926).
+        - datadog_downtime - fix ``TypeError`` when returning API response with ``datadog-api-client``
+          >= 2.28.0 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9079,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12019).
+        - flatpak - fix reporting ``changed`` on already present flatpaks with a dash
+          in the last part of the ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12062,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12063).
+        - gitlab_hook - now properly passes the ``releases_events`` parameter to the
+          GitLab API on hook creation, fixing a 500 Internal Server Error when the
+          parameter was not specified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11269,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11917).
+        - 'ipa_group - fix idempotency when ``external: false`` on an existing non-external
+          group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5061,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11933).'
+        - ldap_attrs - fix ``state=exact`` incorrectly issuing ``MOD_ADD`` instead
+          of ``MOD_REPLACE`` for attributes returned by the server with different
+          casing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1624,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11990).
+        - logstash_plugin - use ``http_proxy``/``https_proxy`` environment variables
+          for proxy support instead of broken JVM flags; expose ``stderr`` on failure
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8650, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11951).
+        - lvol - fix thin-pool creation when ``size`` is a percentage (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11923,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11925).
+        - odbc - fetch rows before committing to fix ``HY010`` function sequence error
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5395, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11972).
+        - pam_limits - only create backup file when the target file is actually modified
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12011,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12014).
+        - puppet - fix ``TypeError`` when writing facts data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7932,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11954).
+        - scaleway_image_info, scaleway_ip_info, scaleway_organization_info, scaleway_security_group_info,
+          scaleway_server_info, scaleway_snapshot_info, scaleway_volume_info - fix
+          ``NoneType`` error when the Scaleway API returns an empty or non-JSON response
+          body (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11361,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11918).
+        - selective callback plugin - align host names in stats output by padding
+          to the longest name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8797,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12065).
+        - seport - fix idempotency when a requested port is already covered by an
+          existing range registered for the same setype (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10105,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11994).
+        - xml - emit an error when ``value`` is not a string, pointing to the offending
+          xpath (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7171,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11959).
+        - xml - fix ``print_match`` not populating the ``matches`` return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9125,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12013).
+        - yarn - skip Node.js runtime warning lines (starting with ``(node:``) in
+          stderr before JSON parsing, fixing failures with Node.js 24 which emits
+          ``DeprecationWarning`` to stderr. The warnings are passed on to the user
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11943).
+        - zypper_repository - allow unreachable ``.repo`` URLs and missing local paths
+          when using ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5769,
+          https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11947).
+      minor_changes:
+        - mattermost, rocketchat, slack - update default ``icon_url`` to ansible favicon
+          (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11909).
+      release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
+    fragments:
+      - 11269-gitlab-hook-releases-events.yaml
+      - 11361-scaleway-get-resources-none-type.yml
+      - 11909-fix-favicon-url.yml
+      - 11925-lvol-thinpool-percentage-size.yml
+      - 11926-crypttab-fix-opts-equal-sign.yml
+      - 11933-ipa-group-external-no-fix.yml
+      - 11943-yarn-nodejs-runtime-warnings.yml
+      - 11947-zypper-repository-remove-broken.yml
+      - 11949-apt-rpm-update-kernel-no-new-kernel.yml
+      - 11951-logstash-plugin-proxy-env-vars.yml
+      - 11954-puppet-facts-write-error.yml
+      - 11959-xml-boolean-value.yml
+      - 11972-odbc-fix-commit-fetch-order.yml
+      - 11990-ldap-attrs-case-insensitive-attr-lookup.yml
+      - 11994-seport-port-overlap.yml
+      - 11995-cobbler-system-interface-keyerror.yml
+      - 12.6.1.yml
+      - 12013-xml-print-match.yml
+      - 12014-pam_limits-backup.yml
+      - 12019-datadog-downtime-uuid.yml
+      - 12024-bundler-deprecated-flags.yml
+      - 12063-flatpak-id-check.yml
+      - 12064-cargo-latest-version-regex.yml
+      - 12065-selective-callback-stats-alignment.yml
+      - 9161-apt-rpm-local-rpm-upgrade.yml
+    release_date: '2026-05-17'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11269-gitlab-hook-releases-events.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/11269-gitlab-hook-releases-events.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index ea20f3d71f..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/11269-gitlab-hook-releases-events.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - gitlab_hook - now properly passes the ``releases_events`` parameter to the GitLab API on hook creation,
-    fixing a 500 Internal Server Error when the parameter was not specified
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11269, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11917).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11361-scaleway-get-resources-none-type.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11361-scaleway-get-resources-none-type.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b12d37deaa..0000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/11361-scaleway-get-resources-none-type.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - scaleway_image_info, scaleway_ip_info, scaleway_organization_info, scaleway_security_group_info, scaleway_server_info, scaleway_snapshot_info, scaleway_volume_info - fix ``NoneType`` error when the Scaleway API returns an empty or non-JSON response body (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11361, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11918).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11909-fix-favicon-url.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11909-fix-favicon-url.yml
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-minor_changes:
-  - "mattermost, rocketchat, slack - update default ``icon_url`` to ansible favicon (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11909)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11925-lvol-thinpool-percentage-size.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11925-lvol-thinpool-percentage-size.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - lvol - fix thin-pool creation when ``size`` is a percentage (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11923, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11925).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11926-crypttab-fix-opts-equal-sign.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11926-crypttab-fix-opts-equal-sign.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - crypttab - fix parsing of options whose value contains an equal sign (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4963, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11926).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11933-ipa-group-external-no-fix.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11933-ipa-group-external-no-fix.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - "ipa_group - fix idempotency when ``external: false`` on an existing non-external group (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5061, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11933)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11943-yarn-nodejs-runtime-warnings.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11943-yarn-nodejs-runtime-warnings.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - yarn - skip Node.js runtime warning lines (starting with ``(node:``) in stderr before JSON parsing, fixing failures with Node.js 24 which emits ``DeprecationWarning`` to stderr. The warnings are passed on to the user (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11943).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11947-zypper-repository-remove-broken.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11947-zypper-repository-remove-broken.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - zypper_repository - allow unreachable ``.repo`` URLs and missing local paths when using ``state=absent`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5769, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11947).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11949-apt-rpm-update-kernel-no-new-kernel.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11949-apt-rpm-update-kernel-no-new-kernel.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/11949-apt-rpm-update-kernel-no-new-kernel.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "apt_rpm - do not fail when ``update_kernel`` finds no new kernel available (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10055, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11949)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11951-logstash-plugin-proxy-env-vars.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11951-logstash-plugin-proxy-env-vars.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/11951-logstash-plugin-proxy-env-vars.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "logstash_plugin - use ``http_proxy``/``https_proxy`` environment variables for proxy support instead of broken JVM flags; expose ``stderr`` on failure (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8650, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11951)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11954-puppet-facts-write-error.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11954-puppet-facts-write-error.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - puppet - fix ``TypeError`` when writing facts data (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7932, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11954).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11959-xml-boolean-value.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11959-xml-boolean-value.yml
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "xml - emit an error when ``value`` is not a string, pointing to the offending xpath
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7171,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11959)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11972-odbc-fix-commit-fetch-order.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11972-odbc-fix-commit-fetch-order.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - odbc - fetch rows before committing to fix ``HY010`` function sequence error (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/5395, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11972).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11990-ldap-attrs-case-insensitive-attr-lookup.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11990-ldap-attrs-case-insensitive-attr-lookup.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - ldap_attrs - fix ``state=exact`` incorrectly issuing ``MOD_ADD`` instead of ``MOD_REPLACE`` for attributes returned by the server with different casing (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/1624, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11990).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11994-seport-port-overlap.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11994-seport-port-overlap.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - seport - fix idempotency when a requested port is already covered by an existing range registered for the same setype (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/10105, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11994).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11995-cobbler-system-interface-keyerror.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11995-cobbler-system-interface-keyerror.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/11995-cobbler-system-interface-keyerror.yml
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - cobbler_system - fix ``KeyError`` when adding a new interface to an existing system that does not yet have it defined
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7007,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11995).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12.6.1.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12.6.1.yml
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-release_summary: Regular bugfix release.
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12013-xml-print-match.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12013-xml-print-match.yml
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-bugfixes:
-  - xml - fix ``print_match`` not populating the ``matches`` return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9125, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12013).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12014-pam_limits-backup.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12014-pam_limits-backup.yml
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "pam_limits - only create backup file when the target file is actually modified (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12011, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12014)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12019-datadog-downtime-uuid.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12019-datadog-downtime-uuid.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/12019-datadog-downtime-uuid.yml
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "datadog_downtime - fix ``TypeError`` when returning API response with ``datadog-api-client`` >= 2.28.0
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9079,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12019)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12024-bundler-deprecated-flags.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12024-bundler-deprecated-flags.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/12024-bundler-deprecated-flags.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "bundler - replace deprecated ``--deployment``, ``--without``, ``--path``,
-    ``--clean``, and ``--binstubs`` flags with ``BUNDLE_*`` environment variables,
-    fixing compatibility with Bundler 4 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/4583,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/11380,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12024)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12063-flatpak-id-check.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12063-flatpak-id-check.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/12063-flatpak-id-check.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - flatpak - fix reporting ``changed`` on already present flatpaks with a dash in the last part of the ID (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/12062, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12063).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12064-cargo-latest-version-regex.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12064-cargo-latest-version-regex.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/12064-cargo-latest-version-regex.yml
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "cargo - fix ``state=latest`` always reporting ``changed`` due to greedy regex capturing description text instead of version string
-    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8949,
-    https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12064)."
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/12065-selective-callback-stats-alignment.yml b/changelogs/fragments/12065-selective-callback-stats-alignment.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/12065-selective-callback-stats-alignment.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - selective callback plugin - align host names in stats output by padding to the longest name (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/8797, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12065).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/9161-apt-rpm-local-rpm-upgrade.yml b/changelogs/fragments/9161-apt-rpm-local-rpm-upgrade.yml
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--- a/changelogs/fragments/9161-apt-rpm-local-rpm-upgrade.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - "apt_rpm - fix upgrade of local RPM not present in repository (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/9161, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/12039)."